translated from Spanish: The general has not who write

on November 14, will remain as those days that occurs a turning point, in that the story made a turn, a moment, a fraction of the time that bare a reality, leaving exposed the weaknesses and inconsistencies and errors which, otherwise, could not come to light. The shooting carried out by the Sergeant Carlos Alarcón not only toppled the Plan momentum Araucania – two months of its premiere, but it also left out the depth of the crisis of police. Millionaire fraud called “Pacogate” and the hurricane operation are the chapters that preceded this sort of tragedy to police. The 14N.
The truth is that history, which began with a – to these heights – suspected stolen vehicles in a school located in the center of the conflict zone, has already had a twist that still holds more surprises. Just remember that the general director travelled to the region two days later and eventually declared that he did so to support law enforcement personnel of the jungle command. In addition to the confusing of the assertion – a villager had been killed at the hands of his subordinates-, Hermes Soto forgot to point out the most relevant: that the Minister Chadwick had forced it to head toward the scene. The chain of errors, delivery of false information, changes of testimonies and involvement of senior officers in the episode, exceeds the imagination of the most creative team of Netflix.
But the most serious is here, apparently, there was a planned and conscious lawyers, colonels and generals direct intervention to “instruct” the sergeants involved, in order to deliver a version that decrease the severity of events and will it affect as little as possible the already damaged image and reputation of the police. How it is possible the former general inspector order and security, i.e. the second on-board the institution came early in the morning to the place in which were delivering statements the accused and should meet with them between interrogation and interrogation? Is that perhaps the message delivered in a video by former Sergeant Alarcón, in which the said that them had been “forced to lie” was a way to protect and inform the high command that could deliver details of his claim to the Prosecutor?

In this chain of intrigue, general Hermes Soto has been in sight and with severe damage to its image. The senior official has been confusing, reactive, and tangled with the Government. After the phrase “they lied us”, pronounced by the Minister Chadwick, and that was understood as unrestricted support to its mandate, La Moneda has taken away and treated to Soto as a student who must yield tests daily, given to which instructions should complying without questioning.
Insurance, suspicions of where the general knew the details, generated a mistrust, which seems to increase as details have been known. Is it possible that the former general Franzani has not called Hermes Soto to tell of his interview with stakeholders and officers in charge in La Araucanía? Police lawyers, in a delicate case, do not report to the maximum its defense strategy officer? Curious.
The treatment received by the Executive in police, especially in the last week, should be generating much concern among the officers. Evil to be evil, a Government of the right which is considering a restructuring deep, questioning them and taking decisions for them, of insurance it has awakened a nostalgic sense of center-left governments. Bachelet supported Villalobos until the last moment, despite the two scandals that lived the institution.
Last Saturday, President Sebastián Piñera announced the withdrawal of the BEPGs of the Araucanía. Despite the significance of the decision, this time it did not accompanied by the general director. On the contrary, he was escorted by his political team. The signal was clear, the President wants to give political leadership crisis that needs a turn, a change of direction with urgency, rather than complete this month, otherwise, the Araucanía Plan “will go down in March” and are likely to that end by natural death high.
But in addition to the end of the famous jungle command, the Authority reported that policemen should train on multicultural issues, human rights and that it will present a plan to restructure police, process that will have oversight of the Undersecretary of Interior. In other words, the police institution was operated by the currency. Political control, routing, and the changes that will come, will be decided by the President and Minister of the Interior and accepted by the police. The general director, then, is in a very awkward position now. The question is if this process of change must be with or without which, for now, is still more part of the problem than of the solution. And, of course, still remains to be seen if “lied to the general”, i.e., his subordinates from the highest hierarchical level to the sergeant who killed Catrillanca or we end up knowing that it intervened in any part of the chain.
Well, and unlike Bachelet with Villalobos, Sebastián Piñera will not hesitate if you should take the decision to Hermes Soto. The President knows that the giro has had with police, from November 14 to date, is a salvation table to be able to keep afloat one of his campaign promises more sobreexpectativas created in the region–won with 62% – and the country : ending the violence in La Araucanía. And, then, the meager result of 37% approval in the CEP and Criteria, known last Friday, polls are an incentive to take measures that will help to improve the public perception, but to do so must dismiss a General appointed by himself makes a few months.

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